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3.83 AVERAGE
3.83 AVERAGE
This was different than the movie. I like the book better.
adventurous
funny
reflective
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
At the risk of sounding totally juvenile and ignorant: this is nothing like the film "Slumdog Millionaire"
The only thing that links the two is the name of the main character so if you go to read this hoping to find out more about the relationships the three children have over their lives and the love story etc. don't.
The question and answer structure made for a light and interesting read with each chapter being a story of its own. At times I struggled with the shift in time but that may have just been me not paying enough attention.
Alike "The White Tiger" by Aravind Adiga, it seems as if Swarup is trying to cram as many of India's problems into a short novel which is great for an A-level exam centered around context but not so much in the world of literature.
Swarup has obviously done his research which I applaud him for and I did find that I was pleasantly surprised with the novel and how it concluded.
An enjoyable read, not an extraordinary one.
The only thing that links the two is the name of the main character so if you go to read this hoping to find out more about the relationships the three children have over their lives and the love story etc. don't.
The question and answer structure made for a light and interesting read with each chapter being a story of its own. At times I struggled with the shift in time but that may have just been me not paying enough attention.
Alike "The White Tiger" by Aravind Adiga, it seems as if Swarup is trying to cram as many of India's problems into a short novel which is great for an A-level exam centered around context but not so much in the world of literature.
Swarup has obviously done his research which I applaud him for and I did find that I was pleasantly surprised with the novel and how it concluded.
An enjoyable read, not an extraordinary one.
Nice book. Ram Mohammad Thomas, memenangkan 1 miliar rupee justru karena nasib yang dia alami dalam menghidupi kerasnya hidup. Realita yang digambarkan oleh Swarup tentang soasialita India begitu hidup.
challenging
emotional
inspiring
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
a page turner ..it's been a while since i've read such an interesting and entertaining book .. totally loved it.
Everything in this book made sense , the series of events are all connected and everything leads to everything .
Everything in this book made sense , the series of events are all connected and everything leads to everything .
This wasn't at all what I was expecting, which was something more along the lines of "Slumdog Millionaire." This book is not that movie. This book is darker, gritter, and much more sad. It's an entirely different story.
The ending twists completely surprised me - both of them. I was not expecting the motivation behind being on the game show or the lawyer's true identity. I liked how it all tied together in the end, but I had a hard time with this one otherwise. Perhaps because I listened to it, I would have enjoyed it more if I were reading it? I'm not sure. It was just OK for me - and I waivered between two and three stars, ultimately going with two.
*I read this as part of the 2021 Popsugar Reading Challenge - “A book whose title starts with "Q," "X," or "Z" "
The ending twists completely surprised me - both of them. I was not expecting the motivation behind being on the game show or the lawyer's true identity. I liked how it all tied together in the end, but I had a hard time with this one otherwise. Perhaps because I listened to it, I would have enjoyed it more if I were reading it? I'm not sure. It was just OK for me - and I waivered between two and three stars, ultimately going with two.
*I read this as part of the 2021 Popsugar Reading Challenge - “A book whose title starts with "Q," "X," or "Z" "
I watched the movie in like 2010 so I felt like I had a pretty good grip on this story (not)
But I knew it was good!!! I was nervous about the book... honestly... because a man wrote it sorry to all my men out there
To my surprise (it literally got a movie made out of it it should not have been a surprise) it was easy to read, captivating, had heart... it also did have fatphobia and homophobia and a little weird like sex stuff but then again it's older, a cultural difference, and etc so considering it wasn't bad at all in that front
Ram has had a crazy life, even though he's only 18 now, and his most recent adventure was going on a version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire and won like a billion rupees... and now he's getting arrested for cheating LOL. (one of the most graphic sentences in the story is in the very beginning as the cop is trying to torture an answer out of him so ? power through it I guess)
He gets a lawyer and sits down to tell his story. What's interesting about this story is it's not told chronologically - it's told in order of the times in his life he learned the trivia that allowed him to answer the game show questions. The whole gig of the story is he's uneducated, poor, etc., but life circumstances have ended up leading him to know the exact answers to random questions. Like for example, he ended up being a tour guide at the Taj Mahal for a while, so even though he doesn't know anything else in history, he knows HELLA intricate stuff about the history of the Taj Mahal. And one of the questions involves that knowledge. So he just has a way to defend each question with facts of how he learned that information fair and square.
It's sad, at parts, because he's an orphan, and life is really hard for a poor 12 year old out there lol, but it's generally light-hearted which I can appreciate.
I think it holds up just fine, was still a really entertaining read, and made me wanna go back and rewatch the movie. So overall, I'm happy with my reading experience :-)
But I knew it was good!!! I was nervous about the book... honestly... because a man wrote it sorry to all my men out there
To my surprise (it literally got a movie made out of it it should not have been a surprise) it was easy to read, captivating, had heart... it also did have fatphobia and homophobia and a little weird like sex stuff but then again it's older, a cultural difference, and etc so considering it wasn't bad at all in that front
Ram has had a crazy life, even though he's only 18 now, and his most recent adventure was going on a version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire and won like a billion rupees... and now he's getting arrested for cheating LOL. (one of the most graphic sentences in the story is in the very beginning as the cop is trying to torture an answer out of him so ? power through it I guess)
He gets a lawyer and sits down to tell his story. What's interesting about this story is it's not told chronologically - it's told in order of the times in his life he learned the trivia that allowed him to answer the game show questions. The whole gig of the story is he's uneducated, poor, etc., but life circumstances have ended up leading him to know the exact answers to random questions. Like for example, he ended up being a tour guide at the Taj Mahal for a while, so even though he doesn't know anything else in history, he knows HELLA intricate stuff about the history of the Taj Mahal. And one of the questions involves that knowledge. So he just has a way to defend each question with facts of how he learned that information fair and square.
It's sad, at parts, because he's an orphan, and life is really hard for a poor 12 year old out there lol, but it's generally light-hearted which I can appreciate.
I think it holds up just fine, was still a really entertaining read, and made me wanna go back and rewatch the movie. So overall, I'm happy with my reading experience :-)